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Show r THE CITIZEN 14 daughter of the Rev. Dana W. Bartlett, former pastor of the Phillips Congregational church of this city. Mrs. Thomas Higgs and Mrs. Gordon Snow are spending a month in Los geles. i An- Miss Catherine Mathews left Wed- nesday for Beaver, to spend several weeks with her sister, Mrs. W. F. Knox. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra P. Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. John F. Lynch are at Pine Lodge, Big Cottonwood canyon, for the remainder of the summer. Miss Sarah Lane of Houston, Texas, i who has been attending college at Berkeley, will arrive in Salt Lake Monday for a visit to her aunt, Mrs. Frank Zwick, in the Prichard apartments. Miss Georgia Van Dyke Elpha Conger are at the and Miss Y. W. C. A. cottage in Emigration canyon. G. 0. P. MEETING The last regular meeting of the Young Mens Republican club before the primaries and the state convention will be held in the ballroom of the Newhouse Hotel Tuesday evening, August 10, at 8 oclock. This meeting will be of special interest to every member and to every citizen who believes in America, Americanism and the constitution. You are urged to attend and to bring with you as many friends and neighbors as possible. At this meeting selected speakers will discuss the local situation and the conditions to be met and overcome. There is much work to be done, but an equitable distribution in the respective election districts will reduce the individual effort to a minimum. By intelligent team work this election can easily be carried and vre will not make and be the error of counted out at the polls. We must get every vote possible into the ballot box. The very best vocal and instrumental music will be provided. Dont forget the date, time and place. We have a great patriotic duty to perform this year. You are urged to take part in the primaries, to attend the convention and help nominate the very best ticket ever presented to the people of Utah. over-confiden- ce BITING. My, exclaimed Mr. Klumsay at the Sophomore Cotillion, this floors awfully slippery. Its hard to keep on your feet. Oh, replied the fair partner, sarcastically, then you were really trying to keep on my feet? I thought it Burr. was purely accidental. THE TABLES TURNED. 1 Mrs. Peenbay (pouring tea): Where did you get that stunning gown? Mrs. Sprinky: Don't tell, but its the cooks day off and I stole it out of her closet! STOP Y - THE OF- CARTOON The history of Cartooning from the beginning is an art history. If a man without an art knowledge, instinctive or acquired, one who can not recognize a line when he sees one, much less draw it, breaks into cartoon or caricature, no matter how original his ideas may be to start with, he rarely lasts long. Caricature and cartoon are the little brothers of art, and by their followers must be taken seriously. Both have been hampered in the years that mankind has been struggling for individual freedom by the same despotism, autocracy, oligarchy, and divine right of kings, that have fettered human liberty. They existed in spirit long before they dared to assume bodily form, but they did dare in the time of the French revolution. Sternly quelled by Napoleon, under the citizen King Louis Philippe, caricature came to active life again, nor has it since retired to obscurity. It was a French artist named Phili-pobut not a very good artist, who brought the poor captive of the ogre Despotism to the light of day. He had failed in a measure as a portrait painter, but he married the sister of a t, popular publisher of prints, a M, and together with a litttle group of poor but bold artists they began attacking the political evils of their time and particularly the hypocrisies of Louis Philippe. They published first La Caricature, a weekly, and followed it by a daily organ called La Charivari. The latter holds its own today. In La Charivari Philipon began publishing caricatures of the citizen king and the officers of his court. It was Thersites attacking Ajax, but the darts, though small, were poisonous and the government grew restless, while all Paris laughed. When the famous Burgudian pear was drawn for La Charivari, affording a ridiculous likeness to Louis Philippe, the government had to act, and it arrested Philipon and dispersed his group of caricaturists. The editor defended himself by drawing in the court room his well known pear and demanding if it were not permissible to a citizen to publish such horticultural sketches. Measures so stringent were taken to gag the freedom of the caricaturist and to palsy his hand that he was forced during the few years still remaining for Louis Philippe to reign to choose as subjects other than government affairs. This in brief is the beginning of the political cartoon, which has grown and flourished in every free country ever since. Its creed, "Through the eye to correct the heart, has not always been lived up to; it has waged unfair war at times, but in the main its office has been useful and its agents honest. In this country and in England the political cartoon has carried enormous weight from the eighteenth century. The politicians, say what they will, must quake when the cartoonists begin to glru at them. Instances of its power to correct deep abuses in so- n, Au-ber- ciety. and. government are so well known in the lives of both countries as to demand no mention here. Everybody recalls them. But here, as in England, the cartoonist does not restrict himself to political happenings or changes; he finds no lack of subjects in the rascalities and ridicules of common life. As a result of this rich field the cartoonist ana caricaturist, and wit skill and diligence they display in cultivating it, have become valuable as portraying the spirit of their times. New York Sun. THE THINKER, BY RODIN (By Lissa Bell Carson.) piece of marble which THIS great been made by the master-hanto express so much, stands in d, Hall, Metropolitan Art Museum, New York City. Auguste Rodin more than almost any other sculptor, has made his works expressive. One feels what he wants one to feel when looking at them. And so in The Thinker we feel the power of thought the massive human figure thinkingly deeply. The entire form is that of one absorbed in thought. The sag of the shoulder, the unconscious hanging of one hand and arm the clinched toes, all express forgotten self and the whole being given up absolutely to deep and bigthoughts. The drooping head supported by the right arm all are masterfully handled. The knit brow and the expression of the eyes all express thinking of the deepest nature. So to say that the artist has chiseled well, has expressed much, is not enough lie has created a masterpiece. The entire human figure is correct in detail. It is a result of years of study of the muscles, bones, sinews and all singly and as a whole. Then he has forgotten these technicalities in making the marble breathe an idea. When an artist feels his subject deeply and rises above his material and makes others feel, when he has awakened within them a new realization of life, of happiness, of possibilities, he has done a great and noble work. And it will live on, blessing mankind. The Thinker, as were Adam and Eve, was at one time intended by the artist to become a part of his Gates of Hell, a commission from the French government. Auguste Rodin was bom in Paris, 1840, and has been called the master modern sculptor. He has been likened to Michael Angelo in character and in work. When we know that Michael Angelos motto was, Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle, we realize how Rodin can justly be likened to the old master. For in his human figures Rodin attained a perfection which is the result only of perfection in every detail. Even so perfect were his first pieces exhibited as to receive the criticism that they must have been cast from life. His anatomy Is true but more than this, it expresses feeling. the Rodin far-awa- y Later, however, he grew away ( this exactness. The works done later life have an unfinished o? The f pressionistic character. rise, as it were, from the unOnj block, and he ceases the mon.ent pression is attained. One of his closest friends 1 as of Rodin: "His character vagf less exceptional than his genius. J seemed compact of strength and?? He had the ardor that ness, takes superhuman tasks and the?? stancy that carries them to a suct m-f- l ni ful end. At the beginning of the world f. realizing the impetuous, passiof6 nature of the French, he. wondt0? about the stability of the Frtf? soldiers. Later when the French f? so gloriously proven their const1 he said, when speaking "The patience of in soldiers: trenches is the sublime virtue offitt war. Rodin loved America and presei eighteen signed plaster casts to IA Metropolitan Art Museum, ip with many other examples of jT work, fill the Rodin Hall there. On' art galleries all over our country u sess examples and replicas of? work. As most great artists Rodin a called in other lines. He wai. ceramist of ability a designer of. cellent dry points andw as a vr. whose appreciation of Greek mediaeval art is profound and ill! nating. As Millet the great painter abhor prettifying his subjects, so the great sculptor, also loved trutl" his work. master thinker and master vt!tr man who said, "There are two thi that are worth while in life A and love. LAUGHABLE MOVIE SIGNS, y Ourreaders often go into mc0 theatres to laugh, but did you bf' realize that you can get many a r laugh by reading some of the si out in front and in the lobby. noticed how audiences ec these funny signs which have tel shown on the screen in the So? "Topics of the Day. have compiled the following list I signs which brought roars of laugfcJ when screened in both vaudeville fl have Liten-Diges- t ' picture theatres: Movie theatre sign: Watch ft Wife Every Night This Weok.1 bany Argus. Sign in front of Harlem movie Tfcl atre: Mother, I Need You for Days Beginning Nov. 30th. N( v ( Globe. Sign in front of movie house aldine Farr, Supported for th P C lu1 Time by Her Husband. (0.) Citizen. i OPENING THE FLOOD GATES. Did Marks take a prominei t P. in the late war? Did he? Ask Marks! |